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TURKEY
TOURS AND THE HISTORY OF ANATOLIA
The history of Anatolia is rich and deep. Some of mankind's earliest
settlements were established here as early as 10,000 BC. Shortly
after this, at Catalhoyuk, near Konya, Man first grew grain. In
following millenia, civilizations such as Assyrians, Sumerians and
Hittites rose and fell. Invaders from abroad left their mark,
whether the Men of the Sea, Cyrus, Darius or Alexander the Great.
The town of Troy, near Canakkale,
was scene of the Trojan War around 1250 BC. Midas, the king with the
golden touch, and Croesus, the inventor of coinage, were rulers of
small but important Anatolian kingdoms in the first millennium BC.
Many of the great accomplishments of classical Hellenic civilization
in the realms of art, architecture, philosophy, medicine and
science, came to light in lonia, the region around present-day lzmir
and Bergama. Rome took Anatolia in the last century BC, and called
it Asia Minor. The Roman provincial capital of Ephesus was among the
largest and finest cities of its time.
St. Paul preached there: the Virgin
Mary died in a small house on the outskirts of the city. The Seven
Churches of Asia, to whom St. Paul addressed Epistles, are all in
Anatolia. And St. Nicholas, the original Santa Claus, lived and
worked on Anatolia's south coast. In 330 AD, Constantine the Great
established the eastern capital of the Roman Empire at Byzantium,
renaming it Constantinople. By the time of the Emperor Justinian
(527 to 565 AD) Rome had fallen, and Constantinople was the capital
of the vast empire. The Prophet Mohammed was born in 570, and within
a century the armies of Islam were threatening the mighty walls of
Constantinople. For centuries, the Byzantine and Arabic empires
struggled for Anatolia, but both were swept aside by the coming of
the Turks.
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EASTERN TURKEY
TOUR
ISTANBUL
(KONSTANTINAPOLIS) - TRABZON (TREBIZOND) -
ERZURUM - KARS - DOGU BEYAZIT -
VAN - DIYARBAKIR - MARDIN - SANLIURFA -
GAZIANTEP - ANTAKYA - ADANA - ISTANBUL
TOUR
PERIOD: 20 DAYS
PRIVATE TOUR
TOUR DETAILS
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WESTERN TURKEY TOUR
ISTANBUL (KONSTANTINAPOLIS) KAYSERI -
CAPPADOCIA - KAYSERI - IZMIR -
EPHESUS - PRIENE & MILETOS - DIDYMA - KUSADASI
PAMUKKALE (HIERAPOLIS) - IZMIR - ISTANBUL
TOUR PERIOD:
10 DAYS
PRIVATE TOUR
TOUR DETAILS
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GRAND TURKEY TOUR
ISTANBUL (KONSTANTINAPOLIS) - BURSA - GORDION
ANKARA - CAPPADOCIA - KONYA -
ANTALYA - PERGE & ASPENDOS - PAMUKKALE - EPHESUS
- IZMIR - PERGAMUM - TROY -
CANAKKALE ( DARDANELLES) - GALLIPOLLI - ISTANBUL
TOUR PERIOD: 14
DAYS
PRIVATE TOUR
TOUR DETAILS
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